Richard Hamming
American mathematician
Richard Wesley Hamming was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer engineering and telecommunications. His contributions include the Hamming code, the Hamming window, Hamming numbers, sphere-packing, Hamming graph... Wikipedia
Born: February 11, 1915, Chicago, IL
Died: January 7, 1998 (age 82 years), Monterey, CA
Education: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1942), University of Nebraska-Lincoln (1939), The University of Chicago (1937), and more
Parents: Mabel Grace Redfield
Known for: Hamming code; Hamming window; Hamming numbers; Hamming distance; Hamming weight; Association for Computing Machinery
Awards: Turing Award (1968), IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award (1979), Harold Pender Award (1981), and more